BurningbirdWeb and tech standards
Sam Ruby wrote, Jackass 2.5 is available exclusively on SilverLight and my first thought was, “Hey! IE 8 must be shipping!” Then I clicked the link and realized he was talking about a movie. Sam brought up Jackass the movie because of an issue of the video element in the HTML5 specification, and whether user agents should, or […]
Anne Van Kesteren: A new survey reveals that at least Microsoft and IBM think the HTML charter does not cover the canvas element. I have to wonder, when reading the survey results, how much the people who voted actually used either SVG or the Canvas element. I covered both SVG and the Canvas Element in the […]
Congratulations to the W3C for finally reclaiming the semantic web back from the drug industry. Seriously, the new logos are a good idea, and they’re quite attractive. The only thing that gave me pause about the logos are the terms of use: When used on the Web, the logo must be an active link to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The logo […]
I must admit to being confused about Molly Holzschlag’s recent posts, including the latest. Today she writes, in clarification of her post where she calls for a moratorium on new standards work: Perhaps there is a better solution than pausing standards development. If so, I’d like to know what you think it might be. One thing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Here’s an interesting one: I’ve had a couple of folks point out that my site layout does not appear correctly in Safari. If the page is opened in a Safari browser that’s smaller than the width of my content setting (currently at 925 pixels), no horizontal scrollbar is generated. However, […]